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 the monastery high above the
city of Petra by angiebabe, 4 more photos
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An awesome experience!! Its easier to get to Jordan, and travel around Jordan, than I imagined and the amazing carved out of and into rocks Rock city of Petra is an amazing must-see - truly a wonder of the world! Leave a Comment
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 somewhere in Petra by zumodemango
My fondest memory is the hospitality of the people in Petra, in Jordan in general. The silent moments in the early morning and the different changes of the stones with the light. Leave a Comment
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 by Djinn76
1) Walk through the siq to the Treasury and come back
-> you could take the classical picture and tell everyone you have been to Petra. Indeed I'm wondering how many tourists are chosing this option.
2) Siq + Treasury + Royal tombs + Theatre+ Roman city
You can easily do that in less than a day. I'd bet that's what most of tourist in a hurry are doing!
You already have a good feeling of the area but you are still missing something.
3) See Point 2) + Climb up to the Monastery
If you arrive early, you can eventually do everything in a single day but that would be a long one!
In this case, you could still rent a donkey to climb to the monastery...
4) See point 3) + High Place
That's slightly less than what I've done. Two days are needed.
5) See point 4) + some more hiking
More than 2 days. A classical add-on would be to walk to Aaron mount (1 day hike)...
Also note that two half-days in Petra are not the same as 1 day:
- first, 1-2km walk through the Siq to arrive to the Treasury
- around, Roman Theatre and Royal tombs
- the roman city is still 1-2km away
- the path to the Monastery is located close to this city.
This would be more relaxing to do it in two half-day but assuming you are climbing to the Monastery, that means you would have to walk again to the end of the site on the second half-day... Leave a Comment
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 Colourful rock formations on
the tombs' walls. by Paul2001Leave a Comment
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 A rock or a bush by TheWanderingCamel
You can find them at the Visitors' Centre before you start off, a little bit below the theatre on the other side of the valley, inside the Basin restaurant down the bottom and round beside the Qasr el Bint.
If you get taken short in between, it is really better to find a convenient rock to hide behind rather than use one of the tombls. Some of them smell very nasty, since the smells don't dissipate in the enclosed space. Rocks are better!
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 Gorge to Petra by Paul2001
People might remember that a scene in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" was shot in the gorge. It is near the climax of the film. Leave a Comment
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The site is enormous. Incredibly, many 'do' Petra in an exhausting one day trip - the highlights being the Siq, the Treasury, the Monastery and those remains in between. To put it into perspective, it took us one and half hours walking downhill from the Monastery to the entrance (and the directest route possible!).
The bets option if you have time is to stagger your trip over 2 or 3 days. Its not a cheap option - JD11,13,16 for 1,2 or 3 days off-peak, double during the high season (and days are consecutive) but it is worth it - Petra is one of the most extraordinary sites.
Just about everything but the first view of the Treasury on Day 1 and the finally reaching the Monastery on Day 2 can not be bettered. Leave a Comment
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The intense colours and extraordinary striations you see everywhere in Petra really give a whole new meaning to the term 'living rock". Everywhere you look you see the rock forming amazing patterns - here looking like shimmering pleated silk, there looking for all the world like a giant layer cake with frosting dripping over the top. Swirls of colour dip and dive, turn right angles and twist back on themselves. Reds, greys, blues and golds dazzle the eye. Inside the tombs they glow with an inner light, outside under the fierce sun thay become paler, more muted but take on deeper and stronger tones in the shadows and as the sun moves through the day they shift and change in a kaleidoscope of colour and pattern that is quite breathtaking.
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get up early in the morning to see petra.
once the tour groups arrive it gets a little hard to see the place properly and get nice photos.
petra opens very early in the morning and if you get there early you have the whole place to yourself.
the superb combination of nature and culture. Leave a Comment
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